HOW TO MAKE YOUR MEANINGS CLEAR
1.To be clear is highly important and often very difficult.
2.Avoid technical terms when addressing a lay audience. Follow Lincoln's plan of putting your ideas into language plain enough for any body to comprehend.
3.Be sure that the thing you wish tospeak about the first as clear as noonday sunshine in your own mind.
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4.Appeal to the sense of sight. Use exhibits, pictures, illustrations when possible. Be definite.
5.Restate your big ideas; but don't repeat, don't use the same phrases twice.Vary the sentence, but reiterate the idea without letting the hearer detect it.
6.Make yourabstract statement clear by following it with general illustrations and what is often better still by specificinstances and concrete cases.
7.Do not strive to cover too many points. In a short speech, one cannot hope to treat adequately more than one or two phases of a big topic.
8.Close with a brief summary of your points.
1.To be clear is highly important and often very difficult.
2.Avoid technical terms when addressing a lay audience. Follow Lincoln's plan of putting your ideas into language plain enough for any body to comprehend.
3.Be sure that the thing you wish tospeak about the first as clear as noonday sunshine in your own mind.
M
4.Appeal to the sense of sight. Use exhibits, pictures, illustrations when possible. Be definite.
5.Restate your big ideas; but don't repeat, don't use the same phrases twice.Vary the sentence, but reiterate the idea without letting the hearer detect it.
6.Make yourabstract statement clear by following it with general illustrations and what is often better still by specificinstances and concrete cases.
7.Do not strive to cover too many points. In a short speech, one cannot hope to treat adequately more than one or two phases of a big topic.
8.Close with a brief summary of your points.
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